Surgical Words

Partial List of “Surgical Words”

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The following listing includes most commonly heard surgical words. The entire listing is alphabetized. If you are looking for Instruments – see the alpha list

Incisions – look under “I”

Dressings – look under “D”

Positions – look under “P”

Suture types – look under “S”

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A

abraders

ACMI various instruments

adenotome

Adson clips, forceps, etc.

Airtene

Allen-Brown

Allis forceps

amniotome

Ambu bag

Applicator

Argyle chest tube

AXI tube

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B

Babcock, retractor, clamp, etc.

Backhaus towel clamp

Balfour retractor

Ballenger

Braithwaite

Balloon catheter

Bard-Parker blade

Bardic blade, tube

Bartos fibrin tunnel

basket (stone)

Bayonet thumb forceps

beanbag

Beaver blade (& deBakey)

Bernay retractor

Bird screw

Birtcher cautery

Blair saw guides

Blalock

bone wax

bougie, bougie a’ boule (French)

Bovie electrocautery

Brown-Buerger

Buettner-Parel

buie

brush

Buerger needle, etc.

bulldog clamp

Bunnell needle

bur

buttress

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C

caliphers, calipers

cannula

capsulotome

Castroviejo scissors, etc.

Charnley

chisel

Cimono shunt

coagulator

colpostat

compressor

conchotome

conductor

connector

Cooley

costotome

cranioclast

craniotome

Crile hemostats

crimper

crocodile clamp

cryosurgical, extractor, probe, cannula

cryptotome

culdoscope

curette

Cushing clips, retractors, etc.

Cutter

cystoscope, Brown-Buerger

cystotome

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D

Deaver retractor

debrider

dermabrader

De Bakey

D’Errico bur, etc.

DeLee bulb, catheter

dermatome

DeVilbiss rongeur, trephine

dilator

dissector

Dixon blade

Dobbhoff tube

Douvas cutter

Doyen Clamps

Doyen cross-action forceps

drill

Dumont forceps

Dunhill hemostats

DRESSINGS

absorbent

adaptic

bandaid

bioclusive

bulky

collodion

compression

cotton

Dri-Site

dry

Flexinet

Esmarch

fluffy

Furacin

gauze

Gelfoam

Impregnated

Ioban

iodoform (no cap)

Jobst

Jones

Kerlix

Kling

Montgomery strips

Nu-gauze

pledgets (various types)

Tegaderm

Telfa

Velpeau

Weck-cel sponge

Xeroform

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E

Eastman clamp

electrotome

elevator

erisophake

Ernst applicator

Esmarch tourniquet (S-mark)

evacuator

excavator

extractor

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F

fasciatome

Ferguson forceps, scissors

ferrule

file

filiforms (and followers)

Flieringa scleral ring

Fogarty catheter

Foley catheter

Followers and filiforms

forcep(s)

Freer elevator

French catheter

Frazier dural elevator

Freidrich-Petz clamp

fulgurating tip

Furniss clamp

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G

Galt trephine

Gelfoam

Gelita B

Gelpi retractor

Gigli saw

Goldman saw

Gomco drain, tube, suction

Gore-tex (grafts)

gouge

Graefe knife

grooved director

guide

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H

Hall air drill

Halsted hemostats

Heaney (clamp)

Harrington forceps, rod, retractor

Heaney clamps, etc.

Hegar dilators

Heifitz clips

hemoclip

hemostat

Hemovac drain

Hiphong trochanter

Hirst forceps

Hohmann

Holinger-Jackson bronchoscope

Holman

hook, Bose, Braun, Pajot, Tyrrell, bone

Horsley bone wax, separator

Hudson drill

Hulka clips

Hurst dilator

hyfrecator

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I

INCISIONS

Auvray

Bar’s

Battle

Bergmann’s

Bevan’s

blunt and sharp

buttonhole

Cherney

Chernez

chevron

circular

circumareolar, -corneal

circumferential

circumoral

circumscribing

classical

conjunctival

corneoscleral

corollary

coronal

crescent, and –shaped

cross-shaped

culdotomy

curved

curvilinear

Deaver’s

dissection

elliptical

endaural

Fergusson’s

Fowler’s

Heerman’s

hemitransfixion

hockey stick

infraorbital, -umbilical

inguinal

intercartilaginous

intracapsular

Kehr’s

Kocher’s

Kustner’s

Langenbeck’s

LaRoque’s

lazy H, S, Z

limbal

linear

longitudinal

lower transverse abdominal

lunar, semilunar

Lynch’s

McBurney

median

midline

muscle splitting

oblique

orbicular

para- w/costal, -median, -muscular, -rectus

peri – w/limbal, -patellar, -scapular

purse-string suture

Pfannanstiel’s (fan-en-steel)

postauricular

rectus muscle splitting

relaxing

Rocky-Davis’

Schuchardt’s

semilunar, -shelving

serpentine

Shambaugh

sharp and blunt

shelving spiral

S-shaped

stab

stellate, stellar

sternal splitting

subcostal, -occipital

superficial

supracervical, -pubic

tracheal

transection

transverse

T-shaped

U-shaped

vertical incision

V-shaped

W-shaped

Yorke-Mason’s

Y-type

Z, Z-flap, -plasty, -shaped

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J

Jackson – many instruments

Jackson Pratt drain, etc. AKA JP drain

Jesberg bronchoscope, etc.

Jewett brace, nail

Judd various instruments

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K

Kanavel cannula

Kerrison punch, rongeur

keratome

Kirmisson raspatory

Kelly clamps, forceps, etc.

Kerr drill

Key drape

Kirschner wire, etc.

Kleinert-Kutz microscopic tool

Klemme retractor

knife

Kocher clamps, forceps, etc.

Koln clips

Kolody hemostatsl

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L

lag screws

Lane clamps

Langenbeck elevator

laser

Lawton-Gulesserian

LC-DC plate

Leahey forcep, etc.

Lebsche knife

LeFort

Lembert various

leukotome

Leyla-Yasargil retractor

Ligaclip

ligature carriers, passers

llithotrites

Lockwood clamps

loupe (eye)

Luque wire

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M

Machemer cutter

Maguire-harvey cutter

Malecot

Malis coagulator

Maloney dilator

Martin needle

Mayfield clips

Mayo needle and scissors

Mayo-Ochsner box-joint forceps

Mayo-Hegar needle holder

Mayo Pean forceps

McKenzie clips

McIntyre needle

Mersilene suture

Metzenbaum scisssors, chisel

Michel clips

Morris cannula

Mosquito clamps

Moynihan clamps

Munro scissors, etc.

Myringotome

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N

nail, nail plate

neurotome

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O

obturator

Olympus fibroscope

Olivecrona clips

Olive tip

Ochsner clamps

osteoclast

osteotome

O’Sullivan-O’Connor retractor

Otis

Oxycel

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P

Padgett dermatome

Parker-Kerr forceps

Patterson clips

Payr clamp

Penrose drain

Pereyra needle

perforator

Pharmiseal drain

Petty, Lim and Stahl

phoroptor

photocoagulator

pick

plates (bone)

Politzer speculum (procedure)

probe

POSITIONS

cross table lateral

decubitus (with directions), left lateral, dorsal, etc.

dorsal, recumbent, lithotomy, supine

frog-legged

jack-knife

knee chest, elbow

lateral decubitus, left

lithotomy, dorsal

prone

recumbent

semireclining, recumbent

supine

Trendelenburg

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Q

Quinton-Scribner shunt

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R

rafting screws

Raney clips, drill, clamps

Rankin clamp

reamer

red rubber catheter

retractor

Reidel corneal needle

rongeur

Rush nail, rod

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S

Sachs cannula

Satterlee saw

Schwartz clips

Scoville clips (also Lewis)

Seldinger catheter

Seletz cannula

Senn retractor

Sim’s retractor

Sinskey hook (ophth)

Smillie nail, punch

Smithwick clip, hook

sound

speculum

Spencer Well forceps

Spurling rongeur

Steenson clamps

stent – tubing

Steradrape

stripper, vein

Strycker – various

sugar clips

sump drain

surgiclip Swan-Ganz catheter

SUTURES – (see illustrations at end of listing)

atraumatic

Babcok

braided

catgut

corneoscleral

Connell suture (technique)

chromic

collagen

cotton

cuticular

Dacron

Dermalene

Dermalon

Dexon

Ethibond

Ethicon

Ethiflex

Ethilon

Everting

Frost stitch

Halsted suture (technique)

horizontal mattress suture (technique)

Lembert suture (technique)

lock or lock-stitch, locking-stitch (technique)

over-and-over suture (technique)

Mersilene

Monofilament

Monocryl

PDS

Prolene

purse-string suture (technique)

retention

silk

steel

subcuticular suture (technique)

Teflon

tension

Tevdek

vertical mattress suture (technique)

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T

tenaculum, single tooth

T-tube drain, etc.

Tenckhoff

Trephine

triple lumen catheter

Trocar

Tru-cut needle

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U – NO REFERENCES
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V

Vannes scissors

Verres (vair-eese)

Vi-drape

Von Petz clamps

Weck hemoclips

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W

Welch, Welch-Allen

Whistle-tip catheter

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X – NO REFERENCES
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Y

Yankauer scope

Yasargil microclips

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Z

Zeiss-Barraquer microscope

Zimmer blade, bolt

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